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San Diego's Celladon Corp. and Novasep have signed a Development, Manufacturing and Supply Agreement pursuant to which Novasep would manufacture Mydicar drug substance through 2018 with extension options through 2020.

The stock price for San Diego’s AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE: AHS) hit its highest point in eight years Tuesday, as the UBS financial services firm upgraded the company from a “neutral” to “buy” based on strong growth projections tied to the improving economy, changing demographics and reforms from the Affordable Care Act.

A subsidiary of Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) has joined with New York’s AMC Health in a collaborative effort to boost wireless connectivity and care coordination with patients who have heart problems, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma or lung disease.

The Federal Reserve’s apparent decision to keep interest rates low for at least the next few months should be good news for real estate investment trusts, particularly those in the health care sector such as San Diego’s BioMed Realty Trust, according to a report in this morning’s Investor Business Daily.

San Diego’s Biocept Inc. (Nasdaq: BIOC) announced Tuesday that it has entered a clinical collaboration with Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego to test its technologies for detecting biomarkers in the blood samples of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, the most prevalent of all lung cancers.

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San Diego biotech Lpath Inc. (Nasdaq: LPTN) reported that its Phase 2a study of Asonep for the treatment of kidney cancer did not lead to statistically significant progression-free survival in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma.

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For the third year in a row, the National Association for Female Executives on recently named San Diego's Scripps Health as one of the top 10 companies for executive women, based on its policies and practices encouraging women's advancement.

Lorraine Hutchinson, a deputy chief with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, has played the odds in work and life and come out ahead. In a paramilitary fire-rescue department with just a handful of African-American women, she has ascended to one of its highest ranks. And while African-American women have the highest breast cancer mortality rate overall despite a lower incidence rate than white women, Hutchinson is a breast cancer survivor who has served as a spokeswoman for the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation’s San Diego affiliate.

The stock price for San Diego’s AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE: AHS) hit its highest point in eight years Tuesday, as the UBS financial services firm upgraded the company from a “neutral” to “buy” based on strong growth projections tied to the improving economy, changing demographics and reforms from the Affordable Care Act.

A subsidiary of Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) has joined with New York’s AMC Health in a collaborative effort to boost wireless connectivity and care coordination with patients who have heart problems, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma or lung disease.

March 16, 2015 -- George Chamberlin sits down with Barbara Newhouse, president and CEO of the ALS Association, to talk about the disease, current research and therapies, and fundraising efforts including the success of the ice-bucket challenge.

June 20, 2014 -- George Chamberlin and Damian McKinney, founder and CEO of McKinney Advisory Group, discuss issues health care service providers are facing with implementation of the Affordable Care Act.